A Manteca man who earlier pleaded not guilty to threatening to kill female staff members of a Bay Area Congresswoman was indicted on eight counts of making threats to federal officials in a separate case, the U.S. Attorney’s office said.

Ronald Joseph Lafaye, 52, threatened to assault, murder, beat or sodomize employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs on eight occasions between March 19 and March 26, the indictment alleges.

On the phone, Lafaye made violent threats against the people he spoke to, their families and other employees at the VA. According to the indictment, Lafaye was motivated to retaliate against the officials because he was upset with the way they performed their duties.

Lafaye’s threats to the VA staff included saying he would carve people’s hearts out, snap their necks and “pimp” them out, the indictment alleges. He also used a range of epithets and slurs on race and sexuality to verbally attack the people who answered the phone.

Lafaye earlier pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal threats, threatening a public officer and making annoying telephone calls in San Mateo County Superior Court. In that case, Lafaye allegedly left 12 threatening voice mails on the office phone for U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough.

San Mateo County district attorney Steve Wagstaffe said that Lafaye had made an innocuous call in December, in which he sought help with veterans affairs. On March 19, Lafaye left a dozen voice mails interlaced with expletives, threatening violence against women on Speier’s staff, prosecutors said.

Lafaye left his first and last name as well as his phone number in the voice mails, Wagstaffe said. Police found him in Oregon, and he was extradited to California.

He is being held at the Maguire Correctional Facility in Redwood City in lieu of $150,000 bail on the charges originating from San Mateo.